Miller: It's past time to get the truck traffic off Manotick's main streets

The City of Ottawa has failed for years to solve this critical traffic safety issue in Manotick — yet there is a solution.

Beginning in the middle of the last decade, if not before, it was recognized by the City of Ottawa transportation planning officials, members of city council and certainly residents and business people as well as road users in Manotick, that there was a serious public safety issue relevant to the road system through the village. The continued use of Bridge Street and Main Street through the village as a designated City of Ottawa through-truck route joining the arterial roads approaching the village from east, west, north and south was problematic, in particular for pedestrian and bicycle users. Read More